Mid-Valley Town Crier

EDINBURG — A lawyer for recently dismissed Hidalgo County Head Start Program Executive Director Teresa Flores said Monday that his client has authorized him to move toward litigation after the Hidalgo County Commissioners Court declined to discuss her termination during a meeting Monday.

MERCEDES —South Texas Independent School District and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley held a signing ceremony Monday morning to announce a new partnership between the two entities.

The Texas unemployment rate edged slightly higher in August, adding a total of 16,400 non-farm jobs, the 10th consecutive month the state has set a new total employment record.

HARLINGEN — The doors for registration for field trips for the 29^th annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival are wide open.

Holidays are active times for state game wardens and this past Labor Day weekend was not an exception.

DONNA — Officials here met for several hours behind closed doors on Thursday to discuss ongoing plans to expand the Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge to accommodate commercial truck traffic.

Another 10 Rio Grande Valley residents died due to COVID-related complications, county officials reported this week, bringing Hidalgo County near 4,000 total COVID deaths.

The only candidates that attended a Futuro RGV political forum on Saturday were the two newcomers vying for Texas Senate District 27, which hasn’t seen a new face in more than three decades.

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Recent rains over the last month have removed drought conditions throughout the Rio Grande Valley and the deep South Texas Ranch and Brush Country, according to the National Weather Service in Brownsville.